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hina has warned that the U.S. should expect a "counterattack" if an incoming intelligence report on the origins of COVID-19 blames the Communist nation, the Associated Press reported.
A theory that COVID-19 could have emerged from a lab leak in Wuhan, China, where the disease was first seen towards the end of 2019, has caused tension between the U.S., China and the World Health Organization (WHO). President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a 90-day review of "two likely scenarios" in late May, including the lab leak theory and another that COVID-19 potentially transferred from animals to humans.
"If they want to baselessly accuse China, they better be prepared to accept the counterattack from China," said Fu Cong, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's director-general.
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